Good public governance, corruption and public service quality: Indonesia evidence

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between good public governance, corruption and public service quality. We use observations from local government (districts and cities) in Indonesia during 2010-2015. Good public governance (GPG) measured by GPG Index based on public governance principles from The Indonesian National Committee of Governance Policy. The result shows that higher good public governance is associated with lower corruption; and lower corruption is associated with high public service quality. Improving good public governance is one of effective strategies in combating corruption in developing countries like Indonesia. The local government need to be encouraged to increase public governance as it is proved to reduce corruption and subsequently increase public service quality.